Stop deleting pusher_id
on versions when the parent user is deleted
#3766
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Summary
This PR deletes the
dependent: :nullify
option that, when a User was deleted, was setting thepusher_id
of all theirVersion
objects to nil.Risks
This approach does not add any risk (since the IDs are opaque), but it does create the somewhat strange condition that there will be
Version
s pointing at non-existent users. Rails handles this for optional relationships by simply returningnil
as if there isn't an ID at all, which is fine. The alternative approach would be to switch to soft-deletion for users. However, this could present its own set of problems due to the retention of "private" data past the user's explicit request to delete it.For now, I propose we stop nulling out the ID, and leave soft-deletion to another PR.